skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But this is not really a brexit that they voted on anyways.

This is we are not in EU but we will keep our laws in line and pay to be part of EU economical zone.

Its pretty much as if they haven't left EU but now they have no say in anything.
Hi @jabberwcky! The plot refers to a B+tree implementation optimised for main-memory (https://panthema.net/2007/stx-btree/). We didn't show the performance for larger/smaller page sizes because in our machine they performed poorly. Indeed, you can see from the figure that the fastest B+tree configuration had page size set to 512 bytes. The one using 1024-byte pages is already much slower, that's why we didn't clutter the plot with page sizes larger than 1k ;)
Any advice on how to help close friends/family members with strong beliefs in vaccine hoaxes (e.g. government will inject chips into our bodies)?

It got so far that they might lose their job, because they believe in the hoax and refuse to get vaccinated.
> I think some of us will survive whats coming

What is going to come?
How do I safely store my files?
>>The first was discussing mining.

There's no evidence to suggest it's discussing mining. It's directly in response to a criticism of the Bitcoin design, where a correspondent argues that everyone validating everything to ensure the transactions they receive are valid will get too costly in computing resources. This is the email that the quoted statement was responding to:

http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-November...

>To detect and reject a double spending event in a timely manner, one must have most past transactions of the coins in the transaction, which, naively implemented, requires each peer to have most past transactions, or most past transactions that occurred recently. If hundreds of millions of people are doing transactions, that is a lot of bandwidth - each must know all, or a substantial part thereof.

So it's unambiguously about validation. Why would you claim otherwise?

And the last known statements Satoshi made on it were in emails to Mike Hearn, like this one, from December 29 2010:

>>A higher limit can be phased in once we have actual use closer to the limit and make sure it's working OK.

>>Eventually when we have client-only implementations, the block chain size won't matter much. Until then, while all users still have to download the entire block chain to start, it's nice if we can keep it down to a reasonable size.

>>With very high transaction volume, network nodes would consolidate and there would be more pooled mining and GPU farms, and users would run client-only. With dev work on optimising and parallelising, it can keep scaling up.

>>Whatever the current capacity of the software is, it automatically grows at the rate of Moore's Law, about 60% per year.

That is much more clearly his preference/vision than the brief reference to the community turning tyrannical about block sizes, and it was more recent.
Why is everything a gate now, this is getting ridiculous.

Is there a website to keep track of all the gates?
Everybody will know, I think the next crash will be a big story, and the renaming will figure prominently in it.
It solves one out of two problems:

How do you keep people in their homes?

How do you get everyone into a home?

Tearing down existing housing to redevelop into high rise apartments similarly only solves one of the two
>governments actively circumventing the basic rules of markets.

Influential companies actively lobby for those circumventions, this is part of capitalism.
Whether it's doable depends on the time you can wait, and ultimately your objective.

Is it enough to stop using WhatsApp within one year?

Or should we be striving to migrate and delete our accounts before the policy change takes effect, to also prevent our historical WhatsApp data to be linked to our FB account?

I don't have a clear answer myself. Anyone more informed, please elaborate.
I don't see how the state can manage a problem better than a city.

> Over 150,000 persons have experienced homelessness in California

That comes out to about $16k in extra funding per person who experienced homelessness.

San Fransisco spends ~364 million to tackle the problem, and has between 8k - 17k homeless, meaning they spend between $21 and $45k per homeless [0]. Maybe it would be a lot worse if they hadn't spent that money, but throwing more money at it and moving up the governance to a higher level likely won't make a dent. I'd imagine local, on the ground officials would have a better shot at it as opposed to state officials.

[0] https://sf.curbed.com/2019/12/19/21027974/san-francisco-home...
AFAIK, mosquitos are the animals that take the most human lives per annum. It is not only about "getting annoyed" during camping.

EDIT, I found a source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deadliest_animals_to_h...
a well known conservative thinker who is against helping the homeless? color me shocked
It never was aerodynamically unstable. It was just at some point if you raised the nose further the force needed on the stick got less rather than more.
This tendency being different from previous versions.

> The MCAS is intended to compensate in such cases [where the aircraft pitches up], modeling the pitching behavior of previous models, and meet a certain certification requirement, in order to enhance handling characteristics and thus minimizing the need for significant pilot retraining.

With proper training/re-certification pilots would be trained in the _actual_ characteristics of the plane, thus being able to correct for this behaviour.
That seems very promising. Is there any reason to think we'd be different from monkeys in this regard?
My wife had "Kill on sight" policy for spiders. Lots of screaming included. I have negotiated for them "safe escort to backyard" policy some time ago. Feel much better about them now.
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>>Sounds like unfettered capitalism to me. I would strongly argue history tells us this is precisely what happens when government has too little influence and corporations therefore become centers of power.

My argument is not about the intensity of the influence but rather about the type of influence, and what influence the government is allowed.

I agree with most "progressives" on the nature of the problems we face as society, where I differ is on what should or can be done to solve them. History as shown that leaning on Authoritarian government regulations do not work out very well either, and leads to all kinds of unintended consequences. As the libertarian saying goes "Government: If you think you have problems now, what until you see our solutions"

The ironic thing as well is when people paint "unfettered capitalism" with "corporations" A Corporation is a government created liability shield that does not exist in a "unfettered capitalist" system or rather a true free market. Corporations are part of the government regulatory apparatus system.

One of the key problems we have is the regulatory capture, because we have allowed government to create corporations, which in turn become powerful and desire to capture the regulations that created them so they can make themselves more powerful, vicious circle

>>We would disagree on what "too much" means, obviously.

I dont know that we would disagree with "too much power", currently it is not how powerful the government is that I have the most problem with, it is the centralization of power that more concerning. The US for all its flaws did get one thing right. Power is best when it distributed. Power wants to consolidate, and centralize, it is up the the people to resist this and we the people have been very poor at that, especially since the Great Depression. We now look to the Federal government to solve all of our problems this is not how our system was to be.
Let's have humans evolve instead of killing things that were here before us.
Hmm, well, I'm a social scientist so perhaps I'm a bit elitist about what counts as seriously understanding the world.

It's not that there's no insight in what the guy says. Some of it is quite accurate. I think I would say that (nearly all) the insight was delivered by The Office in the first place. I never saw the US variant, but I LOVE the UK version. We like shows like that because they do speak to us - we do recognize the appalling awfulness of middle managers, or how decent people get stuck in dead ends.

The problem is the attempt to systematize and generalize and make some deep "theory" out of all this. It just isn't worthwhile. There's no sensible theory where everyone at the top is a sociopath, and everyone at the bottom is a realist, and every middle manager is an idiot. I mean, come on. And this "theory" isn't meant to be tested, and never will be... at best, it'll be written down in some kind of fun, pseudoscientific book like Bullshit Jobs.

To sum up, this guy mistakes ∃ for ∀.
Chesley Sullenberger had a pretty high profile accident but I think I’d still prefer to fly with him at the controls (if he hadn’t retired). I don’t think this is a good metric to measure pilots by.
Individual freedom trumps community welfare.

Who cares if my action causes problems for anybody else, yeah Freedom FREEDOM!!!! I'm the most important person in the world!!! ME ME ME ME ME My rights!!!! Freedom, oh and anything else is ism.

swap in whatever ism is the flavour or the month, I have no idea what any of them mean, but they are all BAD!!!

Sorry... couldn't help myself. There is something disgusting about how people cry freedom as an excuse to take actions that place everybody they encounter at risk.
Lifar also looks terrible. Tesla cars are beautiful.
And that was an amazing deal given the glut at 200mm being apparent even back then.
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There is a reason the US maintains a nuclear deterrent.
AFAIK baked beans were never an official ZX Spectrum accessory although of course a bottle of milk was essential for the ZX80 ;)
On the one end, you have a company that is going head-first and releasing things which aren't ready into the market. On the other end you have a company that is terrified of releasing anything to the market.

It's interesting to see these two companies butting heads.
I am not sure if amazon could afford that. Afterall its a big investment and you couldn't be sure if it worked. And amazon wants to ensure the best and fairest election for its workers. /s

I can't believe that people are defending amazon, even at HN. Their practices are undefendable especially for the biggest company in the world.
Slow down. Things move much slower as an employee and pretend otherwise. Be patient and try to get a wrap on the internal processes.
I made that! https://airlinelist.com still in beta but try the filter No 737Max in fleet
I live in a Mediterranean city, and in summers (hell-hole hot and humid) they're my nightmare. The big ones! They swarm the entire city. I get along well with smaller ones lighter in color though. I freak out the moment I notice one on the wall to the bathroom. Poor me.
That doesn't tell the story. Autopilot is essentially forced off for anything but highway, so they are missing the most dangerous but are racking up millions of the least dangerous miles quick.
> In this paper they've used 45 for HIV. What's your point?

There is a difference between HIV vs SARS-Cov2: If you get AIDS, your body does not have the capacity to recover from it on its own. So, 1) the chances of detecting dead material from a long gone infection are nil; and 2) the cost of a false negative is much higher than the cost of a false positive.

Since most people seem not to be seriously affected by a SARS-Cov2 infection, neither is true for SARS-Cov2. So, not agreeing on a fixed, reasonable, standard number of cycles which everyone uses has the consequence of inflating false positives for no gain. Note WHO's updated information[1].

> WHO guidance Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2 states that careful interpretation of weak positive results is needed (1). The cycle threshold (Ct) needed to detect virus is inversely proportional to the patient’s viral load.

If you are not sick and your viral load is barely detectable, what's the point?

See also Figure 1 in WHO's lab guidance[2].

[1]: https://www.who.int/news/item/20-01-2021-who-information-not...

[2]: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/334254/WHO-...
Author here, if you have questions, input, etc. please let me know.

My experience with remote: we built a remote-first company from idea through exit and were part of the corporate entity post acquisition (also via transition from co-located to remote during Covid).

This post is based on conversations I had with operators across different industries + org sizes.
Exactly. At the time of the acquisition it was already the
"default" messaging service in many countries.

The fact that the acquisition happened has more to do with regulators being asleep than Zuckerberg being awake.

As far as I can recall, the EU regulators believed Facebook's lies about not being able to link WhatsApp and Facebook accounts, which Facebook promptly ignored a few years later. They were fined €110m ($134m) [0]. The maximum fine would have been $276m at the time. Still cheap IMO.

This quote reads like a joke now:

> Today’s decision sends a clear signal to companies that they must comply with all aspects of EU merger rules, including the obligation to provide correct information

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/18/facebook-fi...
So anyone who has a photo or 3D model of you can pay using your face?
But if you split by country, you'll see that there were 0 people killed by malaria in Europe and 500 in both Americas (2015).

Do you still think that we should kill all mosquitoes in the world?

https://ourworldindata.org/malaria

EDIT: haha, and the second most deadly animal from wiki list on earth is .... human. Should we get rid of these "pests" too? Could help with climate change also.
Cascading collapses due to breakages in the food chain and population booms due to lack of predators for certain species.

Both will feed the cycles of imbalance more and more.
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I think a better solution than forcing everyone to become diplomatic or banning those who violate the norms of others is to have somewhat siloed social groups that are represented by open minded thick skinned diplomatic types that permeate the borders.

This is a genuinely fascinating idea that I haven’t seen before in discussion around Mastodon & co.

Not convinced it’s an actual possibility because of a lack of scarce resources & the like to actually cause diplomacy to happen over in a familiar way, but I have 0 idea of what the fediverse is like from within the fediverse, so perhaps there is something there I’m just not aware of.

Would upvote and read an insider’s “Diplomacy in the Age of Federation” esque article in a heartbeat.
Is internal image not thought?
> "holds up a peace sign, which, as the system recognises, means that she wants to pay a 15% tip"

> "uses the shaka sign, pictured, if she wants to tip 20%"

Would you be able to hold a f*u sign and get a discount for privacy conscious behavour?
Hey, I like it. Thanks for referring this. Really appreciate it.

Side note: I also use Adobe product haha have to admit I've been thinking to just dump those Containers folder
We almost have a method that can work on almost any insect, https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4245 and we should definitely apply it to most mosquitos, and many agricultural pests especially in cases when it is an invasive species transported by us from continent to continent. Tzetze, kissing bugs, ticks also need to be eliminated though sadly we do not have a working method for ticks yet.
>> While TMSC is no doubt ahead of competition, it is just by margin of 1-2 generations at max

No, they're ahead because they mastered EUV lithography. It's not just another shrink, it requires a lot of changes and they all have to work and play nice together. The fact that Intel can't seem to get it right, and global foundries voluntarily stopped short is very telling.

Having cleared the hurdles TSMC is rapidly going through a bunch of new nodes: 7,6,5,3,2.
Yes, and the environment (political, societal) you live in might change.
People think something like the (East-Germany) Stasi-State is impossible where they live, but it isn't. You don't have to look far to see societies and governments that make people regret their actions/opinions of the past.

You might get reprimanded (e.g. not being able to find employment) because you suddenly live in a society that hates cabbage, and one time, years ago, you said something very extreme about cabbage...

This is what most people fail to understand.

Every discussion about "privacy rights" and journalists is unfortunately even more abstract to them, because they never lived in a world where this stuff happens or has any importance to them (i.e. they don't see it).
I see this said a lot about openssl due to heartbleed but there's not that much to maintain in established crypto libraries and openssl is certainly maintained if not basically omnipotent in security libs.

I wouldn't say anything nice about the UX that resulted after a few decades or building for embedded but for the most part it does what it claims on the box.
I have the same base thinking, but had to adjust a lot as reality quickly becomes complicated.

For instance running after moths at night isn’t fun, and they don’t bring much troubles so I gave up on the in/out separation for them.

Or spiders: people who don’t want insects in their house might want to let spiders and other predators live with them, as a helping factor.

And then bringing plants inside also bring other kind of life and a lot of tradeoffs depending on the species.
have you considered the scenario that taiwan would peacefully reunite with prc? what would the us do? fight?
Also most society is not capable of helping. Just asking for low wage jobs when you're on a thin line will increase rejection rate. Your stress may push away people. Asking for less pushes away people. Quick vicious circle.
Why would you want to stress a very expensive and hard to replace car component - reducing its life.

Just put some solar panels on your roof
I wonder whether it's possible to make an EUV equipment without American IP. If Japanese companies can do that, the most advanced ASML can do that too, then there will be no market opportunity to Japanese at all.
Consider outsourcing IT services to Poland
Private parking won't be an issue if you can charge the car during grocery runs, but yes, it's an issue.

Rolling out charging isn't much more complicated than rolling out streetlights. But it depends on what kind of "developing countries" we are talking about.

I agree with your prediction wholeheartedly, new car sales will slowly move to EV or PHEV during the next 10 years. After that they'll start to trickle down to the used car market with more affordable prices.

It will be a while before you can grab a $1k beater EV though.
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I did not say we should kill them all. I just contested your camping statement.
Sad to see that Pyston is closed source :/

Would be interesting to see a comparison with PyPy though!
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The problem here is lack of "species-targeted pesticides"(biopesticides), current insecticides are broad-spectrum chemicals that will poison every insect(and aquatic animals too).
Natural history is full of examples of "lets kill things that were here before us". So your argument can't be a reference and a call to a natural state of being. What is it about then?
In UK its illegal to store over 30 liters, and only in special container.

https://www.hse.gov.uk/fireandexplosion/petrol-storage-club-...

Also it goes off after like 6 months if you are not using it.

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/know-how/does-fuel-go-off....
Instead of 'hacking your taste buds' just learn to be satisfied with the food you have, you don't have to enjoy eating.
Yes, I think you're confused about regularisation. A regularisation is (usually) a component in the overall loss, which has the goal of simplifying or preventing overfitting, as opposed to the main component which has the goal of fitting. It's not another term or a formal term for penalty.
Your market solutions is already known to be for the enrichment of the ownership class. That's the whole point of capitalism - enrich people who own stuff.

There's inherent unfairness between the renter and owner; letting the owner kick the renter to the curb on the drop of a hat isn't going to make things better
There are 0 people killed in Europe because we killed all malaria mosquitos with DDT and by draining swamps. Gene drive is a much more humane method in comparison.
Hi @zupa-hu!

In the paper we focused on indexing keys, as the compression of keys and values is an orthogonal problem. For example, you can compress disk pages containing keys and values with a method of your choice, and then use the PGM-index to efficiently locate the page containing the query key.

For what concerns insertion and deletions (in non-sorted order), they are discussed in Section 3 "Dynamic PGM-index" and experimented in Section 7.3. The implementation is available at https://github.com/gvinciguerra/PGM-index/blob/master/includ... and the documentation at https://pgm.di.unipi.it/docs/cpp-reference/#classpgm_1_1_dyn....
Because Signal has one (set of) servers which contain all messages sent through the Signal network. With Matrix if you are communicating with only a handful of people that either self-host or otherwise don't use Matrix.org then the largest homeservers don't even have a copy of your (encrypted) message history. In order for Matrix to be equivalent to Signal in this aspect, every single Matrix user would have to use Matrix.org (which isn't the case).
Start with yourself.
How desperate are you for GPUs, CPUs, consoles? Newegg tests with new lottery
Google will soon have layoffs I bet.
Absolutely. ~10 species of mosquito vs the entire continent of Africa and all of the lives within it?

That’s not even an actual choice, it’s just “yes”. I choose humans.
The better way is to put that info on some private forums where some strangers will discuss it, since it's private by the same definition that's privacy.
Very gross and not an exaggeration at all. A good portion of the stories aren't even tech related and submitted by username "hitler_was_right"
Interesting post - I'm coming from a COSS database perspective (TerminusDB), so talking my book. The point of COSS imho is to create broad value and monetize a percentage of that value. A few points:

1. In database land, there is no other available venture scale business model. If you look at the top 10 databases on DB-Engines (https://db-engines.com/en/ranking), the most recent proprietary db is SQL Server which launched in 1989. Yes, databases are sticky (we see you Oracle), but unless you believe there are no further investable plays in databases, then open source is the only way to invest. (Snowflake is an exception to the rule, but in this case, it is just that).

2. Useful recognition that offering hosted versions of the product is a viable business model that can deliver SaaS type margins. Mongo's Atlas is the obvious leader here - a huge and fast-growing revenue stream. I would also mention the companies that have built successful SaaS/marketplace offering on OSS. Informative list of all the COSS companies above 100m in revenue:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17nKMpi_Dh5slCqzLSFBo...

3. I find this conclusion difficult to swallow: 'The ratio of failed OS businesses to successful ones is worse than in prop-tech; revenue kicks in much later'. I can't find any evidence for the first point - it needs substantiation. For revenue, lots of the most successful venture backed businesses (facebook) have revenue kicking in later so they can maximise growth potential – that’s seems ideal for venture!